 | George Henry Lewes - Philosophers - 1845 - 258 pages
...does not mean any length of time ; it means any number of subdivisions of time. It means that we may divide a thousand feet by ten, and that quotient again...and so on as often as we please ; that there never need be an end to the subdivisions of the distance, nor, consequently, to those of the time in which... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Evidence - 1856 - 560 pages
...does not mean any length, of time: it means any number of subdivisions of time. It means that we may divide a thousand feet by ten, and that quotient again...subdivisions of the distance, nor consequently to thoso VOL. i i. 25 of the time in which it is performed. But an unlimited number of subdivisions may... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - Philosophy - 1857 - 838 pages
...does not mean any length of time — it means any number of subdivisions of time. It means that we may divide a thousand feet by ten, and that quotient again...and so on as often as we please ; that there never need be an end to the subdivisions of the distance, nor, consequently, to those of the time in which... | |
 | Stephen Henry Emmens (writer on logic.) - Logic - 1865 - 200 pages
...does not mean any length of time : it means any number of subdivisions of time. It means that we may divide a thousand feet by ten, and that quotient again by ten, and so on as ofien as we please ; that there never needs be an end to the subdivisions of the distance, nor, consequently,... | |
 | Charles Edward Plumptre - 1878 - 422 pages
...does not mean any length of time — it means any number of subdivisions of time. It means that we may divide a thousand feet by ten, and that quotient again...and so on as often as we please ; that there never need be an end to the subdivisions of the distance, nor, consequently to those of the time in which... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - Philosophers - 1881 - 868 pages
...feet by ten, and that quotient again by ten, and so on as often as we please ; that there never need be an end to the subdivisions of the distance, nor,...consequently, to those of the time in which it is per"ormed. But an unlimited number of subdivisions may be made •>{ that which is itself limited.... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Philosophy - 1884 - 660 pages
...does not mean any hnyth of time ; it means any number of subdivisions of time. It means that we may divide a thousand feet by ten, and that quotient again...on as often as we please ; that there never needs bean end to the subdivisions of the distance, nor consequently to those of the time in which it is... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1884 - 664 pages
...does not mean any length of time ; it means any number of subdivísion-s of time. It means that we may divide a thousand feet by ten, and that quotient again by ten, and ко on as often as we please ; that there never needs bean end to the subdivisions of the distance,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Philosophy - 1889 - 664 pages
...that quotient again by ten, and so on as often as we please ) that there never needs bean end to tha subdivisions of the distance, nor consequently to...argument proves no other infinity of duration than maybe embraced within five minutes. As long as the five minutes are not expired, what remains of them... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1895 - 676 pages
...ten, and that quotient again by 'ten, and so on as often as we please ; that there never needs bean end to the subdivisions of the distance, nor consequently...performed. But an unlimited number of subdivisions may be madu of that which is itself limited. The argument proves no other infinity of duration than may be... | |
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... does not mean any length of time ; it means any number of subdivisions of time. It means that we may divide a thousand feet by ten, and that quotient again by ten, and so on as often as we please ; that there never... 
